Welcome to the STAVE Project Website

This website is dedicated to the 12 European New Member States (NMS) entities which have skills potentially usefull for future Space Transportation projects in Europe..

It contains the STAVE project objectives and activities.

Introduction by Michel Pons, coordinator of the project

The Stave project contributes to maintaining and developing independent, reliable and cost- effective European access to space, being one of the key strategic objectives of the European Space Policy. The consortium composed of CNES, ASI and DLR, which gather more that 85% of the space transportation effort in Europe, is willing to cooperate with the 12 New Member States for facilitating their participation in future Space Transportation European projects.

If you have technical skills and wish to participate to the European Space Transportation activities, the STAVE project can explain how to participate and provide help for this. Simply register for participation to the technical workshops which will be held (starting October 2008) in the different NMS countries, no commitment is required for participation.

This dedicated Support Action is funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme (FP7).

STAVE has performed a mapping of entities, in the 12 European New Member States, among Industry, SMEs, Research and Scientific organisms or Institutes, Universities and Laboratories,which have skills potentially usefull for Space Transportation projects in Europe.

This mapping is not exclusive to entities already working in the space domain.

The final goal of STAVE project is to enhance the capacities of the European Space Community by allowing contribution of all European capacities to the effort of independent European access to space.

STAVE has identified  existing skills and competencies and valorised them by recommended participation to Space Transportation projects in Europe (EC, ESA, National programmes, ... )